In 2003 we conducted a study to determine the consequences of feral hog (Sus scrofa) invasions in several ecoregions of Texas. We examined the observations, experiences, and actions of landowners and managers concerning feral hogs on their property. We used purposive sampling of landowners and managers who fit 1 or more of 3 selection criteria. Landowners and managers were either sent a self‐administered, mail‐out questionnaire or given a copy of the questionnaire during pesticide applicator workshops. There were 775 survey participants. The effective response rate from those landowners and managers who received a mailed questionnaire was 62% (n=284). Nearly all (95%, n = 491) of the pesticide applicator workshop participants turned in a completed questionnaire. Sampling error based on the farms (includes ranches) in Texas and in each region was ±3%, α=0.05. The majority (74%) of respondents were ranchers, and 18% were farmers. Most respondents felt that feral hogs came from the neighbor's property and were an agricultural pest. Rooting, wallowing, and crop damage were the major forms of damage caused by feral hogs. The average economic loss due to hog damage, over the lifetime ownership of the land by the respondent, was $7,515 (U.S). Hog control was an incidental process. The average cost for hog control over the lifetime ownership of the land by the respondent was $2,631 (U.S.). There was strong support for programs related to feral hog management and control, but only half of the survey participants responded to the question. The average quiz score of 11.5 indicated that respondents could correctly respond to < 50% of the 26 questions. Region was found to have an effect (P < 0.05) on all questions tested except one. Management implications included the need for educational programs about feral hogs, how landowners can make better use of feral hogs on their property, ongoing education efforts about feral hogs, and the impact of this study on the public policy and decision‐making process.

The 1985 resident and nonresident angling rates for 49 U.S. states were examined in relation to an array of 19 independent variables that reflected population, resource, and management budget characteristics of each state. Descriptive analyses characterized clusters of states that were above the national average in resident and nonresident angling rates, resident angling rates only, nonresident angling rates only, and those states that were below the national average in resident and nonresident angling rates. Regression analyses isolated those independent variables that may be the most significant explanations of high resident and nonresident angling rates combined, resident, and nonresident angling rates. High resident angling rates were found in those states with lower populations, abundant land and water resources, and healthy fisheries management budgets. High nonresident angling rates were found in those states with high populations. Regression analysis isolated the greater importance of population variables as explanations of angling rates when compared to resource and management budget variables. The effects of population trends, resource assessments, and the public's recreational choices on the future of fishing in the United States are discussed.

The dimer of cyclohexane, which consists of about 80% bicyclohexyl and 20% of cyclohexyl-'-cyclohexene, is readily dehydrogenated to biphenyl. Among the trimers of cyclohexene are products that yield m-and ^-terphenyl on dehydrogenation.From the tetramer fraction a small quantity of a solid tetramer, CsJLs, that melts at 269-271°, was isolated. This tetramer was dehydrogenated with difficulty to a mixture of at least two compounds that approximate the formula CMH16 but their properties do not correspond with any known compounds of this formula in the literature.Fractions that contain pentamers, hexamers, and heptamers have been separated from the polymerization mixture.

This paper describes a 5‐year planning process that addressed the decline of hunting participation in Texas. We began the planning process by examining 20 years of research that revealed a decline in hunting participation and factors contributing to the decline. We convened a Hunting Think Tank meeting where we presented the 20‐year trend data to 30 individuals with vested interests in the future of hunting in Texas. One outcome of the first meeting was the development of a synthesis brochure, “The Future of Hunting in Texas,” to educate the hunting public and stakeholders about current trends and future implications and build support for the need to develop a strategic plan. The Future of Hunting information and brochure were presented to the Hunting Advisory Board of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, after which the Board added development of a strategic plan to its agenda. In fact, the 2002 Governor's Hunting Heritage Symposium was delayed one year until a strategic plan was developed. Group Solutions was hired to survey the hunting and nonhunting public about the future of hunting in Texas. Its survey data were used to define content of the strategic plan during a 2‐day meeting of 60 invited stakeholders before the annual conference of the Texas Wildlife Association. The strategic plan included, among other things, all issues and problems associated with the decline in hunting participation in Texas, an action plan to address the decline, and the requirements needed to activate the plan. Several other valuable outcomes derived from the planning process, beyond development of the Strategic Plan, were included in this report.

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The present paper discusses the methods of preparation of a number of substituted styrenes containing methyl and phenyl ether groups.The chloroethylation reaction discovered by Quelet and Ducasse, followed by dehydrohalogenation of the resulting 1-chloroethyl derivative, is a feasible method for a limited number of styrenes, although yields are reduced by a secondary reaction during chloroethylation, represented as follows in the case of anisole CHaOC6Hj + CH~OC6H~CHClCH~ 4 ( C H J O C~H~)~C H C H~ + HCl I t seemed that an optimum period of reaction might niininiize the formation of this by-product, and experiments with anisole (Table I) have shown this to be true. Extending the reaction time past one hour under the conditions used greatly increased the yield of ltl-di-(4-methoxyph.eny1)-ethane, although the yield in grams of 4-inethoxystyrene was substantially the same in all runs of greater than one hour duration. TABLE I CIILORORTHYLATIC" O F -4NISOLE Yield of 1,lI